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Lydia Burleson

literary scholar | cultural critic | media historian

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Lydia Burleson

literary scholar | cultural critic | media historian

Public Scholarship

Podcast: Historians and Their Histories with MA Historical Society

Podcast: Convo with Judith Butler, CSN Cafe

Interview: Shelley Fisher Fishkin on her book Jim

Using Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl Half-Time Show to Teach Narrative Theory

Video: two Sides of American Utopia, stanford 3MT

Public Convo: Anthony Abraham Jack

Podcast: Identity Representation in Literature, Imagine a World Podcast

Op Ed: Celebrating Impoverished Joy

Book Review: Poverty Persists Because of Us, SSIR

Organizational Publication Projects

Open Access Scholarship with Arcade and the Stanford Humanities Center

Writer and Organizer, ’22, ’23, ’24, ’25, ’26 Jonathan Edwards Trust Newsletter, Yale University

2021 and 2022 Voices and Stories and Year in Review, Dwight Hall at Yale

Advocacy and Outreach

The FGLI Path to the PhD, 1stGenYale and Dwight Hall

First-Generation Low-Income Graduate Mentor, Stanford

First-Generation Low-Income Advisory Board Founder and Member, Knight-Hennessy

Cofounder and Senior Advisor, Inspira Education College Advising Social enterprise

Online Communications and Web Development

Yale International Alliance Website

Dwight Hall Website

Jonathan Edwards Trust Website and Alumni Outreach

Yale Alumni Art League Website

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